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Wonder if theres anyone around who uses this program at all?..

Friend of the family uses Libre Office for most all word processing she
needs except that shes been sent a doc thats like a "template" where you
can or should be able to change the text thats in a differing colour.
There are of course some graphics and logo's on that but there are
defined or seemingly defined areas where you can add text or alter same.

Now I have a rather olde version of wurd and that seems to do the
necessary. However in Libre Office it seems to treat it like a graphic
image. If you for instance right click your mouse a "crossed hairs"
cursor with small arrows on each part of the cross comes up unlike the
single straight upright bar that looks like a text editor one.

Anyone any ideas what you alter in Libre office or is this a file
compatibility problem?.

Cheers..
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Tony Sayer

On Jan 12, 11:43*am, tony sayer <t...@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
> Wonder if theres anyone around who uses this program at all?..
>
> Friend of the family uses Libre Office for most all word processing she
> needs except that shes been sent a doc thats like a "template" where you
> can or should be able to change the text thats in a differing colour.
> There are of course some graphics and logo's on that but there are
> defined or seemingly defined areas where you can add text or alter same.
>
> Now I have a rather olde version of wurd and that seems to do the
> necessary. However in Libre Office it seems to treat it like a graphic
> image. If you for instance right click your mouse a "crossed hairs"
> cursor with small arrows on each part of the cross comes up unlike the
> single straight upright bar that looks like a text editor one.
>
> Anyone any ideas what you alter in Libre office or is this a file
> compatibility problem?.
>
> Cheers..
> --
> Tony Sayer

I've not tried opening a Word form (assuming that's what it is) in LO,
but it does seem all these free Office alternatives have some
formatting quirks. FWIW I find IBM Lotus Symphony more compatible then
OO or LO, so that might be worth a bash as a last resort.

In cam.misc tony sayer <> wrote:

> Anyone any ideas what you alter in Libre office or is this a file
> compatibility problem?.

I don't know if it would work or not, but you could try uploading it to
Google Docs and then downloading it as an .odf file. Or you could try
this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/commen...ocuments_that/

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On Jan 12, 11:43*am, tony sayer wrote:
> Now I have a rather olde version of wurd and that seems to do the
> necessary. However in Libre Office it seems to treat it like a graphic
> image. If you for instance right click your mouse a "crossed hairs"
> cursor with small arrows on each part of the cross comes up unlike the
> single straight upright bar that looks like a text editor one.

Try double or multiple clicking on it - if it's a text box I think OOO
(and thus LO) may treat it as a floatable graphic on first click, and
need more clicks to get 'inside' it to the text

Owain

Owain wrote:
> On Jan 12, 11:43 am, tony sayer wrote:
>> Now I have a rather olde version of wurd and that seems to do the
>> necessary. However in Libre Office it seems to treat it like a graphic
>> image. If you for instance right click your mouse a "crossed hairs"
>> cursor with small arrows on each part of the cross comes up unlike the
>> single straight upright bar that looks like a text editor one.
>
> Try double or multiple clicking on it - if it's a text box I think OOO
> (and thus LO) may treat it as a floatable graphic on first click, and
> need more clicks to get 'inside' it to the text
>

That sounds not far off the mark.. I find trying to get either WORD OR
open office to do anything 'inside a box' to be..arcane at the best.

I can see why SWMBO likes Quark..EVERYTHING is a 'box' and that's how
you do the entire process..whether it's a graphic or editable text.


Word processors like WORD are in a sense the worst of all solutions:
They do everything badly.

'Jack of all trades, master of none'

I either want pure editable text, with the minimum of formatting, or
something that is formatted for HTML or really laid out properly, like
Quark..


> Owain
>